"You know we haven't seen an Owl yet, though we hear one almost every night." "Doubtless there are; but the best place to find Owls is in the old wood, far up by the lake, where the lumbermen have their camp.

The Great Horned Owl nests there, and many Hawks besides.

I will take you all there some day, and, if you do not find the birds themselves, you can see the wild places where they like to nest." "Couldn't we go very soon, uncle?
Next week, perhaps ?" urged Dodo.
"Fourth of July comes next week," said Nat, "and uncle said we could go down to the shore again, and take our fire-crackers! It will be such fun to stick them in rows in the sand and make them sizzle--more fun even than Owls! Don't you think so, Dodo ?" he asked anxiously.
"Oh, yes; and then it wouldn't be polite either not to have fire-crackers on the Fourth of July.

I think the American Eagle or the President or somebody expects children to have fire-crackers.

Mammy Bun says the first American Eagle was hatched on the Fourth of July, you know," said Dodo earnestly.